The man accused of throwing a glitter bomb at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday night was released after being questioned by Denver police and the Secret Service.

Peter Lucas Smith, 20, was detained after he threw blue glitter at Romney as he was shaking hands with a crowd at the Auraria campus, said Sonny Jackson, spokesman for the Denver Police Department.

The glitter missed the former governor of Massachusetts, but Smith was quickly removed from the room. Romney was in Colorado for Tuesday’s Republican caucus, where he finished second behind Rick Santorum.

Smith was issued a citation for causing a disturbance by throwing a missile and unlawful acts on school grounds, Jackson said.

Jordan Steffen was the legal affairs reporter for The Denver Post. She left the organization in June 2016 after joining in January 2011. Her past coverage areas included breaking news, child welfare, the western suburbs and crime. She was raised in the Colorado mountains and graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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